ArticleVeterinary research forum : an international quarterly journal2025
Effect of different ratios of male-to-female in broilers on performance and nutrients digestibility.
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- Protease and Phytase Alleviate Digestive Limitations of Canola Seed in Broiler Chickens.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Article
- Evaluation of hydrolyzed corn steep liquor as an alternative feed ingredient in broiler nutrition: impacts on performance, litter quality, gut integrity, and bone mineralization.Poultry science · 2026Article
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Abstract
Male and female broiler chickens differ in performance and this will cause unwanted experimental errors in research. For this reason, single-sex or mixed-sex broilers are used in most studies. This study aimed to assess the performance differences between groups of chickens with varying male/female ratios to determine how sex ratio can affect performance criteria. Birds (N = 550) were separated by sex and placed in 11 groups (pens) according to the male/female ratios, including group 1 (10 males + 0 female), group 2 (9 males + 1 female), group 3 (8 males + 2 females), group 4 (7 males + 3 females), group 5 (6 males + 4 females), group 6 (5 males + 5 females), group 7 (4 males + 6 females), group 8 (3 males + 7 females), group 9 (2 males + 8 females), group 10 (1 male + 9 females), and group 11 (0 male + 10 females). The results showed that male broiler chickens had higher feed intake and body weight gain than female broiler chickens, but the feed conversion ratio was not affected by gender. The digestibility of phosphorus, bone strength, bone density, bone calcium and phosphorus, pH, and redness and water holding capacity of meat were higher in male broilers. The dripping loss was higher in female broilers. This study showed that male and female broiler chickens differed in most of the parameters examined in the research, and the use of separate breeding affected the research results.
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